Faure plays Faure

Gabriel Faure plays Pavane, Op. 50, 1913 Welte Mignon recording.
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[@TheDailyConnoisseur]

Who is here for The Chic Assignment? 🎵

[@hdavis82183]

Me! This is so beautiful! What a lovely piece! Makes me want to go brush up on my piano skills.

[@carrie5387]

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[@kimbull7715]

🙋🏼‍♀️ lovely suggestion Jennifer , as always 😊

[@LadyMaireSD]

Me!

[@MustardSeedish]

Me!

[@benjaminglorieux8920]

At the age of 68 ... "the subtility and charm of softness" ... What a way of phrasing ...

[@philippe-lucthouvenin2102]

C’est tellement émouvant de revenir soudain 100 ans en arrière et de pouvoir écouter Fauré lui-même! Merci

[@reikoviolin]

From listening to different orchestras play this piece, I've always had the impression that this Pavane was loaded, solemn, and beautiful in a haunting way. This version gives me a different feeling, however -- the rhythm lilts and the phrase sounds more uplifting. The music just sweeps, rather than moving in a heavy, tearful way.... if you know what I mean. It shows a charming side of Faure, and I love it. Simply beautiful!

[@Threetails]

The piece has lyrics too. They sound big and solemn in most performances but the words are the playful banter between ballet dancers in a studio.

[@ericastier1646]

That is a great comment, and I've found this to be generally the case for compositions that are loaded and heavy in feeling, the posterity tends to overfocus and the interprets overdo the melodramatic aspect when the composer original recording is much lighter hearted. Examples of this are Ravel Pavane pour une infante defunte, Ravel le Gibet. Others like Chopin we obviously do not have Chopin's playing but many written accounts that he found interpretation of his pieces by others to deviate to much from a more reserved style that he favored. This is written down. Also he once stopped a student's playing that was too indulging in the melancholy by saying "Please sit down [your emotions] !". Also Liszt was a great witness of Chopin's playing, he used the word "poetic" which is an expressive word not a emotional word. I am quite sure Chopin would be scandalized and probably uncomfortable with how his pieces are played with full blown dramatic effects these days with the ton of volume modern piano are capable of. I'm sure his playing must have made them sound more poetic and expressive than tragic and having played a 1845 Pleyel myself, i have an idea how it would have sounded. Generally speaking composers would play the piano in much more poetic and expressive way that has been lost. While today's interprets play without reserve and do not dare to shade to much lest they feel they would be accused of underplaying the musical content. Only the composer has no worry for that and will play the piece as intended.

[@TheLifeisgood72]

@@ericastier1646 Chopin and Rachmaninov are lucky that the sentimental playing style of today "works" for their music. There's many great composers - Grieg, Scriabin, Mendelssohn, Ravel, etc. - where the modern, sentimental style of playing simply doesn't work for their pieces at all. What's worse, is that many write them off as 'bad composers' after hearing such attempts. I think modern pianists need to sit down their emotions, study the 19th century performance practice, so we can get to the true sentiment of classical music.

[@ericastier1646]

@@TheLifeisgood72 great comment ! society has changed (i first wrote evolved) and not for the better in the loss of morality, good manners, courtesy and the loss of appreciation for virtue, instead replaced by self righteousness and self entitlement much of it caused by a degenerated media class of people and a fraudulent currency economy system that made people give up on meritocracy. Upside down meaning of words and so on. All of this does not give young performer the expressive and poetic background for art. Instead contemporary art punishes today's society. Each era gets the art it deserves. The good pianists come from preserved family sometimes poor who were less exposed to commercialism, consumerism and degenerated media ideas. It's why the interpretation of fine romantic composers such as the one you listed like Scriabin notably is perturbated and makes no sense.

[@royhowat9785]

The conductor Sir Adrian Boult had more to say about this piece's mood and tempo. When he was young he heard Fauré play the piece several times, and reported that it was 'never slower than quarter-note = 100' (the Welte roll supports that), with no slowing at all at the end. Boult also noted what the words were about (something of a spoof) and that the piece is a dance. You'll find more detail in various Peters editions of the Pavane, and in a book of mine, 'The Art of French piano music: Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Chabrier' (Yale UP, 2009).

[@alexa-kimstone3656]

french music is so much connected to the landscape it´s amazing and beautiful, Debussy Ravel, Faure, messian... geniuses

[@levistrauss8310]

The picture of G. Faure in this video is him seated at likely his Erard French grand piano. Erard pianos are some of the greatest pianos ever built in history. In some cases exceeding the quality and craftsmanship of Steinway, Bosendorfer, Bechstein, and Bluthner. Each Erard grand piano was painstakingly made by hand, expertly crafted.

[@debapreeti]

How heartbreaking and yet dreamy is this , what is it about France in early 1900 ? Debussy, Faure... All going against the tide and giving us beautiful music that escalates so much above just an auditory experience... I can see this music, I can feel it on me and I can breathe it in as well ❤️❤️❤️ also, this version is a little faster and chaotic and so much more passionate !!

[@antoinepetrov]

And it's not only France at that time. German and Austrian music from the same time is also great. I love Schoenberg, and I find his music equally as beautiful and passionate as French Impressionism.

[@Terpsichorean-oj8vc]

@@antoinepetrov Schoenberg and beauty are two words that don't mix.

[@antoinepetrov]

@@Terpsichorean-oj8vc don't agree. Check out Glenn Gould's Schoenberg if you want to change your mind

[@Herr_strauss91]

If any of you are interested - fun fact: that is G. Faure seated at his very own Erard concert grand piano, which is the piano this was composed on. Arguably the greatest influencer and builder of fine pianos 🎹.

[@DerekWilliamsMusic]

Glorious piece, fascinating to hear it performed by the master himself.

[@ChesterFanningChorno]

What a beautiful piece of music. Haunting melody combined with the refined and gentle Faure touch.

[@Pacmandies]

it impresses me every time I hear this kind of thing. The master interpreting his own work. I can't help but imagine how wonderful it would have been to meet these musicians, handshake, hug, thank: / Sublime;;

[@yankelmoskauer]

Great! Thanks all those who invented, created, recorded and shared this masterpiece!

[@kathymccune2679]

Thank you Jennifer. Never would have heard this beautiful music without the chic assignment!

[@davidhardy879]

What sensitive , thoughtful and EMOTIONAL playing this is !! Brava Maestro !

[@matteovasta2326]

Ciao David Hardy , I agree with you 100% on what you've said about this beautiful piece , but as an Italian I'd like to correct you on a small detail " Bravo " Is for men " Brava " Is for women So you should say : " Bravo Maestro " and in case Faure was a woman, (which I highly doubt 😝) : " Brava Maestra " Keep listening to wonderful music and have a nice day 😉

[@jamesmiller4184]

It is, isn't it? And just think, David, if not for the agency of The Welte-Mignon - NO experiential per se Faure!!! Just common silence as say with Joseffy, who committed tangibly NOTHING of his own to preservation for posterity, save for his tantalizing image and old written/witnessed accounts of what his Art is proposed to have been like. Not good enough! Just with this present case of Faure's, hearing is at least semi-believing/experiencing; mere words obviously failing as insufficient, in the important regard. . : .

[@franziskadahinden9529]

How interesting to hear this interpretation of Fauré by Fauré himself. Thank you so much!

[@aknozer9087]

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[@BegToDiffer99]

We are sooooo blessed to have this. Thanks, Louiu.

[@ronleunissen]

Fascinating to hear the maestro him self play his composition.

[@RasT108]

And he played it too fast. Just goes to show, the composer doesn't always know best.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

Man I love this tempo. This is how I first heard it.

[@timothyj1966]

we are so fortunate there is such a thing as the invention as the Piano rolls, Percy Grainger often recored his compositions as well as arrangements on piano rolls - luckily we have them today to here how the composers interpreted them best

[@jamesmiller4184]

Thanks much for stating that opinion, timothyj1966. Sadly and still, some take PRIDE in Reproducing Record-Roll prejudice (essentially a prideful bigotry) but, their numbers are thankfully receding into 'correct' silence, as these note-roll records' inimitable value and capacity to - "... bring 'em back ALIVE!" - become more self-evident such as here, with this lovely Fauré item now before us. As musically-fine and communicative at it is tho, there are yet LAYERS of subtlety not-yet-realized within this interpretation of the master Faurés. (Best believe it.) . : .

[@linekelortye4090]

Always listen to this when I need some strength....

[@gemeni0]

Bach plays Bach. Soon on youtube.

[@losthor1zon]

If only the reproducing piano had been around at the time!

[@leatui7]

Plato, reading the Republic, soon on KZbin. (see Playlist, which includes Moses receiving the 10 Commandments directly from God, Krishna speaking to Arjuna, and Jesus giving the Sermon on the Mount!

[@riccardovalente3260]

Yuri Gagarin 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@harelkariv1477]

We could finally know how to play his pieces with correct intonation lol

[@twinicebear775]

There is actually a "recording" of a Haydn. It's a programmed organ clock, but witnesses say Haydn was in the room while it was programmed, and made sure the tempo and everything was the way he wanted. So, a little time machine

[@tempusfugit7127]

My tears for my lost love and youth . 😢😢

[@gloubilo132]

write the story of your lost love and i will read it...

[@melindalemmon2149]

oh Lord, bless and crown Faure again, if you will...

[@maxreger100]

What a lovely sentiment, Melinda.

[@RebeccaETripp]

Oh, wow! It's so beautiful when it's coming from his hands. I usually hear slowed down, more lilting versions of it (something I often prefer) but I really like it better at this pace.

[@jamesmiller4184]

Dear Rebecca, not "hands" but rather, felt-tipped wooden fingers as set to the service of recrystallized Art. I ask: who could have thought that intellect might produce ('reproduce' rigorously) Living Art from otherwise dead materials??? Your musical observations are both perceptive and useful. Thank you. . : .

[@missbennett85]

Thank you for introducing your viewers to this incredible music!

[@n3vuf]

What the composer thought, what the composer wrote, offered to artists for interpretation then the composer renders is a trip through the meaning of existence. T.M. Shorewick

[@Corralonero]

¡ Qué maravilla poder escuchar a Gabriel Fauré interpretando su música al piano !

[@MrSexyromantic]

Fermer les yeux et se laisser porter par la musique. Bouleversant !

[@jacksonjanis5460]

One of my favorite recordings

[@NALAYAN1]

Tellement émouvant d'entendre G. Fauré lui-même!

[@vaucherjean-francois6891]

Il faut vraiment observer la manière d'articuler et de "rouler" les accords : aujourd'hui on "tape" directement, alors on arpégeait et de cette façon on pouvait avoir un accent personnel. Aujourd'hui c'est la technique et la seule vitesse qui compte. Une autre pianiste de la même époque, élève de Liszt, Théresa Carrègno a laissé des enregistrements de Liszt qui laissent pantois…

[@jeanchristopherevel9180]

Oui Anna Thérèsa caregno a enregistré aussi des chopins avec notes inégales cf première ballade très éloquent

[@stephane9261]

Je vais essayer de trouver ces enregistrements de Liszt. Merci dr l info

[@jrk9357]

Si je joue comme ça à ma prof de piano je me fais renvoyer immédiatement pour non respect du texte.

[@vaucherjean-francois6891]

@@jrk9357 Le RESPECT ... là est tout le problème! le génie et l'art n'existeraient pas s'il n'y avait que le respect : dans sa 1ère fugue du 1er livre du clavier bien tempéré, alors QU'IL SAVAIT QUE L'ON RÉSERVE LES STRETTES POUR LA FIN DE LA FUGUE, se met, dès la fin de l'exposition, à ne faire QUE des strettes .... on aurait du certainement le faire quitter les cours de contrepoint pour cette incartade!

[@OutOfWards]

This is quite a treat for everyone, Amazing. I love his Cantique DeJean Racine. It's amazing.

[@penelopewhite5074]

I'm sure many people have noticed near the ending ,the composition sounds like minor key Jazz of the fifties (especially played on a flute)

[@andrewbarrett1537]

While I hear that, to me it sounds more like a 1980s new age or "new romantic" piece with a rock influence. I am not putting it down at all because I think those genres have also brought us some great music. I just think it's absolutely wild that it sounds 100 years ahead of its time!

[@erikasono565]

フォーレの曲も、ともすると地味に聴こえてしまいがちなのですが、こんなに味わい深い、奥の深いものだったのですね。 フォーレ自身の人生の年輪を経た眼差しが浮かんでくるようです。

[@janejohnson8905]

Lovely to hear this. Thank you, Jennifer.

[@dologuzy9759]

Love this piece of music!

[@sprunzloffio]

But I'm the only who find this piece so "contemporary"..?

[@GreenTeaViewer]

does it make it better or worse if it sounds "contemporary"?

[@sprunzloffio]

​@@GreenTeaViewer knowing how to look forward is extremely worthy

[@MikatheRaccoon]

But it is contemporary. There are still people alive, older than this record

[@nellieou]

Because it is contemporary.

[@BigBlackCat]

good music often to not appreciated in its time... maybe future

[@susana3026]

Yo llevo con ella un año y aun no la domino, pero sigo con mucha moral 😜, me parece una pieza maravillosa y aunque tarde mil años la tocaré 🤯🤓. Gracias Faure.

[@giuseppedimarco8358]

Astonishingly Beautifully! Perfect!

[@hanswegen9928]

I have an Erard to, appr. 1903. Parallel strings. Beautiful!

[@happygirl8146]

thank you)))) this is love and hope

[@profmet]

So Precious!

[@starcatchingboy]

Esta pieza me conmueve hasta las lágrimas. Es tan expresiva, tan extasiante. Y escucharla con su autor es otra experiencia. El tempo en grabaciones de piano y orquesta es mucho más lento. Aquí suena más vivaz, aunque no pierde su carácter melancólico.

[@brozj3004]

beautiful song

[@GiuseppeFochesato]

+Broz J how is it possible a sound like this??

[@BastianSchick]

Giuseppe Fochesato it is not possible!

[@ac8907]

La preuve !

[@viggosimonsen]

Faurè has the same sort of private sweetness as Chopin

[@alexs1504]

He has a french aesthetic but in many ways his music can be compared to Chopin's

[@esfrscghdcn4372]

It is one of the one my favorite French composer

[@aknozer9087]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3mpmpZ3q6ypeqs

[@taniaamendola7855]

Assolutamente affascinante....❤

[@b.g.7580]

Beautiful

[@kimc3024]

I'd like to see the dance that goes with it...

[@beethovenberlioz]

Un capolavoro immortale

[@damienfradet85]

tres émouvant d'entendre ce vieux maitre ,,,admiration

[@megaurea2904]

Predivno,savršeno i jasno!

[@hannahk1887]

I’m here from the Chic Assignment! Beautiful!!

[@1947laurence]

❤❤Thank you

[@marybaker8370]

I am and very relaxed, beautiful.

[@若松富美夫]

Faure plays Faure　には世のフォーレ弾きのイメージからすると、何かしらの違和感を感じていました。今夜またこの演奏を聴いて、作曲家自身は「豪気」だと感じました。

[@simonblanjean6538]

Never realised how it sounds very oriental-ish until right now

[@geuros]

is there anyone who owns some copy of the original piano solo sheet music composed by Fauré himself? I don't mean any transcriptions that are available

[@janerawertry4385]

I Played this piece myself... it’s really beautiful! Originally written with Cello and Violin... I love it!

[@c.d-p4302]

Magique....

[@daichann49]

ガブリエル・フォーレって名前からすでにかっちょいい

[@ferrandiroland1422]

quelle histoire quelle vie merci;...

[@Abidification]

An absolutely delightful work played equally beautifully by the master himself. Would anyone know what work it is as I would like to learn it myself.

[@pierrelandy9755]

"Pavane"

[@andrewbarrett1537]

Pavane opus 50 in F# minor.

[@koroszo]

this record is far better natural reproducing sound than other channers'！! I would like you tell me what source is used...

[@traubeminze810]

The source is a player piano roll for a welte reproducing piano, a genius instrument which should reproduce exaclty what the player had played.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

I am also curious exactly whose piano was recorded for this, what year, who were the piano technicians, what record label is it on, etc. It sounds like they got everything exactly right in this recording.

[@gerardballon3923]

Dans la série Gabi envoie du lourd, monsieur Fauré

[@rubinsteinway]

Merci beaucoup GF.

[@gabrielfaure9091]

Je vous en prie

[@malissathornton1389]

Love this.

[@juliegoodwin6850]

So very beautiful

[@alexkije]

Different from the typical orchestration we now hear with added harmony.

[@majav15mg]

How often does it happen nowadays that you go to a classical music recital to hear a composer play his own music? A performer performing his or her own compositions? Doesn’t Hamelin compose his own music himself? Because I think most people don’t give much of a shit and just expect him to play Liszt or Alkan or whatever else.

[@elizabethphillips2199]

I'm here, beautiful.

[@GiuseppeFochesato]

A recording made in the 1913??

[@andrewbarrett1537]

Look up the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano.

[@Welverance]

con tutta la valanga di versioni che ne son venute dopo questa fa capire finalmente cosa voleva comunicare! (cioè questa è top le altre sono un passo indietro, non è banale questa cosa, soprattutto nella musica moderna , visto l'ignoranza musicale, ci sono molti pezzi in seguito migliorati di molto nelle versioni seguenti)

[@dilarayuksel3985]

Keşke bu kadar güzel şeylerle daha çok karşılaşsam

[@Martial-Mat]

It's a technically challenging piece and despite moving his fingers fast enough, his makes it sound like he was playing with his feet on a saloon piano. Fantastic composition though.

[@ervaloychuga2202]

sólo el artista creador puede hacer sentir a los demás su creación con tanta perfección

[@SCRIABINIST]

Congrats Faure, you played yourself

[@lexivalentina6227]

I am! Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

[@trantinto]

so he played himself?

[@gabrielfaure9091]

Yes

[@qalaphyll]

@@gabrielfaure9091 oh the composer himself is here!

[@KrisPBacon69]

Congratulations, he played himself.

[@srothbardt]

Was he really so metronomic or is it the playback equipment of the roll?

[@lukasfierz5300]

According to his son his playing was quite disciplined and metronomic "une main de fer dans un gant de velours" (a hand of steel in a glove of velvet).

[@srothbardt]

@@lukasfierz5300 I bow to an obvious expert.

[@penelopewhite5074]

Ravel, Debusey' Granados et Rachmaninnov toutes est meilliuer jouer par le compositer. Ca aussi.

[@olafwitte906]

Wo genau in Paris hatte er die Ehre, es aufzuführen?

[@thomasrexdale3706]

of course it is obvious that the welte is not operating perfectly do you? The best one i every heard was in some smal l town in Texas in 1969 and put together from parts by a local automobile mechanic but he had understanding of how its intricacies worked and said it took him two years in his spare time to do it as he had purchased it for junk from a wealthy oil family who was a bout to throw it away . I offered to buy it from him as I was moving from Louisiana to New York at the time but he said after all my work its not for sale ill just get some more rolls and fool around with it. Sadly he was NOT a musician. The only roll he had was Faure playing his Nocturne which is on this posting. As i recall more expressive in the highs and lows of the volume and of course more consistant_less choppy. I asked him where he got that roll he said in their barn with more castoffs of stuf f from the same time period. I oftenwonder what happened to this instrument and how much it could have been enjoyed and appreciated by those who understood this miracle that he just thought of as something to fool around with. The case was not restored and he said a local piano tuner had tuned it but it had taken him three tunings to be satisfied. Maybe after 30 years?

[@1937franco]

grazie...possiamo conoscere il modo che Faure'intendeva la sua musica

[@siegfriedenea]

Ed è prontamente diversa dalla versione sdolcinata all quale siamo abituati … è molto più virile. Per me è stato un colpo

[@rrhines3151]

I am! 😊💕🎶

[@OnurSencan]

Great composers need not to be great performers :)

[@4980cbs]

But they usually are.

[@saltag]

Well not quite, and it's understandable, they spend most of their time composing great music rather than practicing!

[@4980cbs]

They know better than anyboby else how their music must sound and if they don't feel,capable of a good rendition they usually step down, if they are honest and intelligent and great composers have to. Much have been said of Stravinsky shortcomings as a conductor however I didn´t really love his music until I heard it played by himself.It was an awakening!

[@saltag]

Cristino Bermudez Salcines I think conducting is a bit different from performing on an instrument

[@4980cbs]

I don't. Virtuosity is a thing, technical skills, that´s training, music is not a sport is an art, it is about communicating emotions, feelings and beauty. The lack of training as a conductor in Stravinsky case only meant that they had to rehearse harder. He also lacked the qualities that make a great conductor, the musicians of the orchestra didn´t respect him, they had being playing his works under Toscanini or Ormandy but at he end they had to do it as Stravinsky wanted it. An orchestra is an instrument, you have to make it sound in an specific way, you have to know what you want and if you don't it's of no use to be a virtuoso.

[@StephenGrew]

Before two world wars

[@ShuaiWang12]

Ling Ling plays Ling Ling

[@yclept9]

A real rather than implied downbeat makes the piece a little un-Faure like.

[@alajbegslama301]

Probably fake. The sound quality is 1000 times better than in 1913.

[@wolfgangamadeusmozart6852]

Yup I agree

[@abcdef-wi2bh]

Pardon. But this is too clear to be Faure's. I've heard similar recordings of sarasate and others on KZbin, but this one sounds suspicious.

[@losthor1zon]

It's a reproducing piano, not a direct audio recording (the audio recording was made be replaying the roll on a similar instrument much later).

[@abcdef-wi2bh]

Hmmm... thanks :)

[@yasindegerli9642]

Çok güzelsin

[@kimc3024]

Well, we know it's real and NOT Memorex!

[@blackbeard0074]

Mozart plays mozart

[@barbararicordy9317]

not possible...I listen 4 hands...

[@ChristianJoannes]

agree ! The piano score is available online, Here its a version for 2 pianos.

[@mrJohnDesiderio]

Piano roll

[@LOBonnevie]

Well ok, pretend yes, my english is not that good, I´m a little too slow.

[@Mel-hw3os]

there is no better interpret than the composer.

[@henryasucacalderon7740]

Asucaaaa

[@monelleny]

The composer should be the ultimate authority on how to play his own music, right? And yet, beautiful as this piece is, I don't feel that Faure does it jusice, at all.